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Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet./
Author:	Li, Chao.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Maria Babyonyshev; Laurence R. Horn.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3267297
ISBN:	9780549065647

Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet.
Li, Chao.

Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet. - 267 p.

Advisers: Maria Babyonyshev; Laurence R. Horn.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2007.

This dissertation undertakes two major tasks. First, it offers a lexical-semantic account of Mandarin resultative verb compounds (RVCs) within the event structure model of argument representation and argument realization developed on the basis of Levin & Rappaport Hovav's work (particularly Levin 1999 and Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998). On this account, RVCs are formed through a lexical rule. The complex thematic relations expressed by RVCs, which are clearly reflected in the ambiguity of some sentences containing an RVC, result from different interactions of the individual thematic relation expressed by each component of the compound and the composite thematic relation expressed by the whole compound, and from the different ways of realizing the Causer and the Causee.

ISBN: 9780549065647Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet.
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520 $a This dissertation undertakes two major tasks. First, it offers a lexical-semantic account of Mandarin resultative verb compounds (RVCs) within the event structure model of argument representation and argument realization developed on the basis of Levin & Rappaport Hovav's work (particularly Levin 1999 and Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998). On this account, RVCs are formed through a lexical rule. The complex thematic relations expressed by RVCs, which are clearly reflected in the ambiguity of some sentences containing an RVC, result from different interactions of the individual thematic relation expressed by each component of the compound and the composite thematic relation expressed by the whole compound, and from the different ways of realizing the Causer and the Causee.
520 $a Second, the dissertation places the study of Mandarin RVCs in a larger context and examines four aspects of Mandarin RVCs from a crosslinguistic perspective, namely the subject-oriented reading (when the causing predicate is unergative or transitive), the "scare reading," the occurrence in the inchoative frame of a causative alternation, and the use of a stative causing predicate. It shows that all these phenomena are crosslinguistically marked and thus typologically significant. It argues that the differences among English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, and Swedish with respect to the first three phenomena fall out of the difference in the way the resultative is formed (namely, compound resultatives vs. non-compound resultatives), the headedness of the compound (and the degree of topic prominence of the language).
520 $a The lexical-semantic account proposed is of theoretical significance in at least three respects. First, lexical (and syntactic) rules, like ordinary lexical items, are language memory bank items, although they themselves are not lexical items. As a result, there is no need to list the outputs of the rules in the lexicon or in the language memory bank. In turn, it does not necessarily lead to polysemy when the same verb is used in different syntactic frames. Second, both simple event roles licensed by simple events and complex event roles licensed by complex events should be recognized. Finally, the division of labor should be maintained, syntax should be made simpler, and the complete isomorphism between syntax and semantics should be abandoned.
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